Follow
Will & Patrick in this fifth installment of the romantic-comedy serial, Wake
Up Married, by best-selling
author Leta Blake and newcomer Alice Griffiths!Patrick has finally accepted that he's in love with Will, but his newfound
determination to do something about that runs up against his father-in-law's
mobster plans. Though just what those plans are have as yet to be determined.
As far as Will and Patrick can tell, they consist of blowing through town,
wreaking small havoc, and turning the Patterson family's lives on end. Will must face the truth about his family before he can fully come to terms
with his feelings for Patrick. And Patrick has to decide if this whackadoodle
world is something he truly wants to be part of forever. Episode 5 of 6 in the Wake
Up Married serial.

Excerpt

The next
morning, Will’s romantic musings feel like the product of overwrought
exhaustion when Patrick wakes up cranky as a cat dunked in water.

“Turn off the
alarm,” he snarls. “Make it stop.” Then, sitting up and glaring at Will like
he’s going to kill him with the power of his mind, he demands, “Did you test
yet? Did you eat? What’s your BG number?”

Will’s not even
out of bed. Only fifteen seconds ago he’d had one hundred and seventy pounds of
Patrick spread out on top of him. Of course he hasn’t tested yet. “I just woke
up.”

“Don’t make me
test you myself.” Patrick flings back the covers and stalks to the bathroom in
his underwear. Will rolls his eyes but grabs his kit and quickly tests. Over
the sound of piss hitting water, Patrick calls out, “Well? What’s the number?”

Will indicates
his nipples. “What? Check ’em out. Not even a little bit pointy.”

Patrick narrows
his gaze but a reluctant smirk tweaks up the corner of his mouth.

“Let me guess.”
Will laughs. “You know how to change that.” The knot of worry loosens in his
chest. “Maybe later. I have to eat first.”

While they wait
for room service, they shower and shave, and Will endures Patrick making a
solid pitch for him to consider a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System.

“I’ll ask Dr.
Anastasia about it,” Will compromises.

“And a pump.”

“Don’t push
your luck.”

They throw on
robes to greet Perry and his cart of warm, delicious-smelling goodies.
Conversation is cut dead at that point as Patrick devours his bacon, muffins,
doughnuts, and strawberries with fresh cream. Will’s healthier breakfast of
cottage cheese, whole-wheat toast, and a small slice of quiche Lorraine isn’t
nearly as exciting, but he doesn’t know how Patrick stays so slim eating like
he does. If he tried it, he’d be the size of a house.

Once they
finish breakfast, Will broaches the topic. “We’re going to need to talk about
my dad eventually.”

“What happened
to pretending he’s dead?”

“Unfortunately,
he’s not.”

“Point.”

“And he’s
staying in this building, so we’re bound to run into him sooner rather than
later.”

“Better point.”

Will lets a wry
grin spread on his lips. “But I’m not going to just sit back and let him run
the show this time. I need find out why he’s in town and then get him to leave
again. As soon as possible.” He stands up and brings the chess set over to the
table, clearing away their plates. “If we can play ahead of his game, we can at
least capture his queen. And then maybe even his king. Especially since he
won’t be expecting us to be playing at all.”

“If by queen
you’re referring to Kimberly, I don’t know about that. She’s a slippery one.”

“You think
Tony’s back because of my mother?”

“Historically,
her milkshake has brought him to the yard.”

Will sighs as
he sets up the board. “She’s only been dating Jason a few weeks. Tony usually
waits for her to get serious before he drops in to ruin her chance at
happiness.”

“Maybe Jason
proposed.”

“That’d be on The Hurting Times forums ten minutes
after it happened. Have you seen it there?”

“Nope.”

“And Caitlin
would have called threatening to jump off a bridge or shave her head or
something drastic in protest.”

“So he hasn’t
put a ring on it yet.”

Will moves his
pawn forward. “It’s still a starting place.”

Patrick shoves
one of his pawns out to an empty square. “Before surgery, I have to know what
I’m dealing with. I can’t just cut into someone’s noggin without knowing if I’m
going in to repair damage or to cut out a tumor. Same here. We need more
information. What’s your dad’s sign?”

Will’s lips
flatten. “Seriously?”

Patrick lifts
his brows.

“Sagittarius.”

“I knew it!”
Patrick shakes his head. “Never trust a Sagittarius.”

Will sighs and
ignores this. “Even though the award ceremony isn’t until March, word is getting
around now that I won the Healing Hero Award. I hope to God he’s not planning
to stick around for that.”

“A
congratulatory phone call from Mobster Daddy would have sufficed.”

Will moves a
pawn in front of the right bishop. “You’ve been slapped with that stupid
malpractice suit. That might have raised his hackles too, if he’s not sure of
your intentions toward me.”

Heat zings in
the air between them. Will clears his throat. “That’s a long time from now. Who
knows when we’ll even have to think about it? You’ll probably be tired of
sleeping with me by the time a loophole opens up for us.”

“I’ll never get
tired of fucking you.”

Patrick sounds
so certain that Will’s dick stirs and he has to look away, focusing his
attention back on the chessboard. He’s not sure whose move it is now. “Anyway,
there are plenty of reasons for Tony to make the trip from Minneapolis. I’m
surprised I didn’t see it coming.”

Author
Bios

Leta Blake

Author
of the bestselling book Smoky Mountain Dreams and the fan favorite Training
Season, Leta Blake's educational and professional background is in psychology
and finance, respectively. However, her passion has always been for writing.
She enjoys crafting romance stories and exploring the psyches of made up
people. At home in the Southern U.S., Leta works hard at achieving balance
between her day job, her writing, and her family.

A long-time reader of romance novels, Alice Griffiths finally
took the plunge into writing, teaming up with best-selling author Leta Blake
for the 'Woke up Married' serialized comedy. A lover of tropes, Alice enjoys
mining old ideas and putting a fresh, funny spin on them. Formerly working in
the newspaper industry, Alice is now an art curator. She lives in Sydney,
Australia.

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